8 MISSISSIPPI STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY [Bull. 
it is also probable that errors will be discovered by the critical 
botanist, but we felt that the mass of material brought together 
by our labors has added some new light on plant distribution in 
the central Gulf region, and therefore justifies publication. 
While in the list the newer terminology has been adhered to, 
in most instances the name given each species in the third edi- 
tion of Chapman’s Flora has been included in parentheses as a 
synonymn, because, while it is desirable to encourage the use of 
the newer nomenclature, to mast of the older botanists, includ- 
ing the writer, the nomenclature of Chapman is more familiar, 
and its insertion will facilitate reference. In fact, we are not sure 
that an occasional error has not crept into the list in the process 
of translation from the old to the new language, although special 
effort has been made to avoid them. 
Where our notes will permit we have preferred to refer the 
station of each species in the List to some definite locality. In 
many instances, however, the species is listed from some county. 
This is not entirely satisfactory, and in all future observations 
exact localities will be noted. The use of place names has neces- 
sitated the insertion of names of many places that would be diffi- 
cult to find on a map of the state. To facilitate the finding of 
these, an alphabetical list of the places, each referred to the 
county in which it occurs, has been appended at the end of this 
volume. 
Where the name of a collector, as Allison or Tracy, appears 
in parenthesis after a given locality, it means that the species 
under consideration was collected or noted at. that locality by the 
botanist whose name is given. Where several localities are men- 
tioned in the distribution of a species, only the one immediately 
preceding the collector’s name is his locality, the others being 
stations recorded by members of the Geological Survey Staff. 
